Hitler: A Career

A career unparalleled in history

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse.

Documentary History

Gert Westphal

(Narrator (voice))

Adolf Hitler

(Self (archive footage))

Ernest Bevin

(Self (archive footage))

Karl Brandt

(Self (archive footage))

Eva Braun

(Self (archive footage))

Neville Chamberlain

(Self (archive footage))

Charlie Chaplin

(Self (archive footage))

Winston Churchill

(Self (archive footage))

Édouard Daladier

(Self (archive footage))

Karl Dönitz

(Self (archive footage))

Albert Einstein

(Self (archive footage))

Emperor Franz Josef

(Self (archive footage))

Otto Gebühr

(Frederick the Great (archive footage))

Joseph Goebbels

(Self (archive footage))

Hermann Göring

(Self (archive footage))

Rudolf Heß

(Self (archive footage))

Reinhard Heydrich

(Self (archive footage))

Heinrich Himmler

(Self (archive footage))

Alfred Jodl

(Self (archive footage))

Wilhelm Keitel

(Self (archive footage))

King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

(Self (archive footage))

Fritz Kortner

(Self (archive footage))

Ernst Lubitsch

(Self (archive footage))

Thomas Mann

(Self (archive footage))

Theodor Morell

(Self (archive footage))

Benito Mussolini

(Self (archive footage))

Friedrich Paulus

(Self (archive footage))

Max Reinhardt

(Self (archive footage))

Erwin Rommel

(Self (archive footage))

Ernst Röhm

(Self (archive footage))

Albert Speer

(Self (archive footage))

Richard Tauber

(Self (archive footage))

Joachim von Ribbentrop

(Self (archive footage))

Harry Giese

(Narrator (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited))